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Citing the Coinbase CEO (https://www.coinbase.com/en-ca/blog/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company https://www.coinbase.com/en-ca/blog/coinbase-is-a-mission-fo.

Citing the Coinbase CEO (https://www.coinbase.com/en-ca/blog/coinbase-is-a-mission-focused-company https://www.coinbase.com/en-ca/blog/coinbase-is-a-mission-fo...) as a reason to not talk politics at work is pretty weird. He says you shouldn't engage in diversity hires, but he himself has been going around hiring ex-DOGE people to join Coinbase, an explicitly political move: > In a May 13 X post, Armstrong said members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team, spearheaded by Elon Musk, though not set up as an actual department, would be welcome to implement cost-cutting changes at Coinbase after leaving the US government. > Armstrong offered to set up an accelerated onboarding process with the exchange, responding to an interview in which at least one DOGE staffer felt ostracized from Harvard University, where he had been enrolled. https://cointelegraph.com/news/brian-armstrong-coinbase-political-journey https://cointelegraph.com/news/brian-armstrong-coinbase-poli... This is Coinbase UK advertising and it is aligned with the UK right - saying the system is failing: https://x.com/coinbase/status/1950843893240496564 https://x.com/coinbase/status/1950843893240496564 He is doing that to curry favor with the US and UK right. No doubt. He is an explicitly political person who wants his employees to not be. This is just two separate systems of rules depending on whether he agrees with you or not.

exasperaited 1y ago
Indeed -- Coinbase has an explicit ideology and has benefited from it through Trump dropping an investigation. If people stopped talking about politics in Coinbase offices towards the end of 2020, perhaps it was to stop staff pushing back on their very deliberate movement towards self-serving politics. > This is Coinbase UK advertising and it is aligned with the UK right - saying the system is failing That advert blew me away when I saw it on streaming TV. It is simultaneously quite obviously a work of art and also staggeringly reprehensible; it should be regulated as a Party Political Broadcast because it is a political statement clearly aimed to benefit Reform, for one thing. It is also being used to persuade the very people who have not got even the base of their investment risk pyramid sorted out to just abandon all of it and work on the high risk stuff that should be at the top, which really should be attracting the attention of the ASA, who have banned adverts for less. Appalling and actually quite worrying.

exasperaited 1y ago

Indeed -- Coinbase has an explicit ideology and has benefited from it through Trump dropping an investigation. If people stopped talking about politics in Coinbase offices towards the end of 2020, perhaps it was to stop staff pushing back on their very deliberate movement towards self-serving politics. > This is Coinbase UK advertising and it is aligned with the UK right - saying the system is failing That advert blew me away when I saw it on streaming TV. It is simultaneously quite obviously a work of art and also staggeringly reprehensible; it should be regulated as a Party Political Broadcast because it is a political statement clearly aimed to benefit Reform, for one thing. It is also being used to persuade the very people who have not got even the base of their investment risk pyramid sorted out to just abandon all of it and work on the high risk stuff that should be at the top, which really should be attracting the attention of the ASA, who have banned adverts for less. Appalling and actually quite worrying.